PicMonkey, the leading photo editing website, in conjunction with LEWIS, recently conducted a survey with over 2,000 respondents about the photos they edit and post on social media. Respondents were asked questions regarding photo quality and personal preference and use. Not surprisingly, 91 percent of all respondents said they haveContinue Reading
Erosion takes a long time. Memories not so much. There used to be two groups of photographers, the casual, memory grabbers and the pros. The memory grabbers pick up a camera for family occasions or social events in order to compensate for everyone’s poor memory. Unimportant is the image qualityContinue Reading
We all read the stories and we have all heard the rumors. Latest, and probably most infamous is Google’s mislabelling of an African-American couple as “gorilla”. Proudly installed within mainstream services like Flickr and Google photos, visual content recognition is quickly getting a bad rep thanks to a few very publicContinue Reading
A new report from L2 Insight has just been released, covering Instagram’s recent efforts into the advertising space. The Facebook-owned company has made slow and careful steps over the last few years, carefully managing its user base while increasing its offering to advertisers. The result is paying off: In 2014,Continue Reading
What will we do with all the data we accumulate from photos? On a daily basis, internet juggernauts like Google, Yahoo, Facebook or Microsoft use highly sophisticated deep learning engines to better understand the content of billions of images uploaded, liked and shared. For now, it is to better serve adverting but what elseContinue Reading
Jon Oringer of Shutterstock said it well: barrier of entry in stock photography licensing today is very low (actually getting lower), barrier to scalability is very high and getting higher. In other words, it is easy to find and regroup content to license (UGC or not). It is much harderContinue Reading
An insightful study about teens and Instagram was recently published by the Pennsylvania State University. In it, Jin Yea Jang, Kyungsik Han, Patrick C. Shih, and Dongwon Lee of the College of Information Sciences and Technology division, reveal some interesting facts on how teenagers interact with the photo sharing platform. UsingContinue Reading
This week will go down in the history of the photo tech space ( if such a history is ever written) as a milestone. While predictably anticipated by even the laziest followers, both Instagram and Pinterest announced the addition of a “buy” button next to images. The latter has goneContinue Reading
To understand the role of photography today, we have to understand why we take pictures. We automatically tend to associate picture-taking as an addition to our memory function since a lot of our natural visual activity is geared towards storing information for later use. However, with the advent of digital andContinue Reading
Different day, different crowd : If day 1 of the LDV Vision Summit was all about science, research and data ( massive amounts of data), Day 2 opened the doors to more practical applications of visual tech, mostly around revenue. In other words, how companies are using the discoveries of researchersContinue Reading